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For-Profit Universities
The Shifting Landscape of Marketized Higher Education: 2017
By Tressie McMillan Cottom (Edited by), William A. Darity, Jr. (Edited by)

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Switzerland, 10 April 2017

This edited volume proposes that the phenomenon of private sector, financialized higher education expansion in the United States benefits from a range of theoretical and methodological treatments. Social scientists, policy analysts, researchers, and for-profit sector leaders discuss how and to what ends for-profit colleges are a functional social good. The chapters include discussions of inequality, stratification, and legitimacy, differing greatly from other work on for-profit colleges in three ways: First, this volume moves beyond rational choice explanations of for-profit expansion to include critical theoretical work. Second, it deals with the nuances of race, class, and gender in ways absent from other research. Finally, the book's interdisciplinary focus is uniquely equipped to deal with the complexity of high-cost, low-status, for-profit credentialism at a scale never before seen.



Tressie McMillan Cottom is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA, and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, USA. She is a former Fellow at the Center for Poverty Research at the University of California, Davis, USA, and at the Microsoft Social Media Collective.


William A. ("Sandy") Darity, Jr., is Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics, and Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University, USA. He has served as Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and was the founding Director of the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality at Duke.



Contributors

Victor H.M. Borden, Indiana University, USA

Bonnie K. Fox Garrity, Accord Integrated Academic and Financial Integration, USA

David J. Harding, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Thomas A. Mays, Miami University, USA

Jane Rochmes, Stanford University, USA

Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, Bucknell University, USA
David Diego Torres, Rice University, USA

Gaye Tuchman, University of Connecticut, USA

Jonathan White, University and College Union, UK


1. Introduction; Tressie McMillan Cottom

2. What is the Difference? Public Funding of For-Profit, Not-for-Profit, and Public Institutions; Bonnie K. Fox Garrity

3. For-Profit Higher Education in the United Kingdom: The Politics of Market Creation; Jonathan White

4. For-Profit Universities through the Eyes of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System: Warts and All; Victor M.H. Borden

5. Social Capital and For-Profit Post-Secondary Institutions: A Planned Study; Thomas A. Mays

6. Stratification and the Public Good: The Changing Ideology of Higher Education; Gaye Tuchman

7. Who Attends For-Profit Institutions? The Enrollment Landscape; Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, Steve Stokes, William Darity, Jr.

8. Enrollment and Degree Completion at For-Profit Colleges versus Traditional Institutions; David Diego Torres, Jane Rochmes, David J. Harding

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This edited volume proposes that the phenomenon of private sector, financialized higher education expansion in the United States benefits from a range of theoretical and methodological treatments. Social scientists, policy analysts, researchers, and for-profit sector leaders discuss how and to what ends for-profit colleges are a functional social good. The chapters include discussions of inequality, stratification, and legitimacy, differing greatly from other work on for-profit colleges in three ways: First, this volume moves beyond rational choice explanations of for-profit expansion to include critical theoretical work. Second, it deals with the nuances of race, class, and gender in ways absent from other research. Finally, the book's interdisciplinary focus is uniquely equipped to deal with the complexity of high-cost, low-status, for-profit credentialism at a scale never before seen.



Tressie McMillan Cottom is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA, and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, USA. She is a former Fellow at the Center for Poverty Research at the University of California, Davis, USA, and at the Microsoft Social Media Collective.


William A. ("Sandy") Darity, Jr., is Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics, and Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University, USA. He has served as Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and was the founding Director of the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality at Duke.



Contributors

Victor H.M. Borden, Indiana University, USA

Bonnie K. Fox Garrity, Accord Integrated Academic and Financial Integration, USA

David J. Harding, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Thomas A. Mays, Miami University, USA

Jane Rochmes, Stanford University, USA

Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, Bucknell University, USA
David Diego Torres, Rice University, USA

Gaye Tuchman, University of Connecticut, USA

Jonathan White, University and College Union, UK


1. Introduction; Tressie McMillan Cottom

2. What is the Difference? Public Funding of For-Profit, Not-for-Profit, and Public Institutions; Bonnie K. Fox Garrity

3. For-Profit Higher Education in the United Kingdom: The Politics of Market Creation; Jonathan White

4. For-Profit Universities through the Eyes of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System: Warts and All; Victor M.H. Borden

5. Social Capital and For-Profit Post-Secondary Institutions: A Planned Study; Thomas A. Mays

6. Stratification and the Public Good: The Changing Ideology of Higher Education; Gaye Tuchman

7. Who Attends For-Profit Institutions? The Enrollment Landscape; Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, Steve Stokes, William Darity, Jr.

8. Enrollment and Degree Completion at For-Profit Colleges versus Traditional Institutions; David Diego Torres, Jane Rochmes, David J. Harding

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9783319471860
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3319471864
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39 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 224 p. 39 illus.
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21 x 14.8 x 1.4 centimeters (4.15 kg)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. What is the Difference? Public Funding of For-Profit, Not-for-Profit, and Public Institutions.- 3. For-Profit Higher Education in the United Kingdom: The Politics of Market Creation.- 4. For-Profit Universities through the Eyes of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System: Warts and All.- 5. Social Capital and For-Profit Post-Secondary Institutions: A Planned Study.- 6. Stratification and the Public Good: The Changing Ideology of Higher Education.- 7. Who Attends For-Profit Institutions? The Enrollment Landscape.- 8. Enrollment and Degree Completion at For-Profit Colleges versus Traditional Institutions. 

About the Author

Tressie McMillan Cottom is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA, and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, USA. She is a former Fellow at the Center for Poverty Research at the University of California, Davis, USA, and at the Microsoft Social Media Collective.

William A. ("Sandy") Darity, Jr., is Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics, and Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University, USA. He has served as Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and was the founding Director of the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality at Duke. 

ContributorsVictor H.M. Borden, Indiana University, USABonnie K. Fox Garrity, Accord Integrated Academic and Financial Integration, USADavid J. Harding, University of California, Berkeley, USAThomas A. Mays, Miami University, USAJane Rochmes, Stanford University, USARhonda Vonshay Sharpe, Bucknell University, USADavid Diego Torres, Rice University, USAGaye Tuchman, University of Connecticut, USAJonathan White, University and College Union, UK

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